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I can't remember exactly when I got my current cat, Dustbunny. He went for almost a year without a name. See, back during Winter Storm Pax (Feb 11-17, 2014) it was bad in my area, but great for photos. One day I finally wandered around towards the back of my house and spotted a few tiny paw prints in the snow. I didn't see any kitties, but I did see a decent sized "ice sculpture" attached to the back of my house. A pipe had burst. -__- I'd have rather found the kitty. So it being cold as it was I got a few tuna cans to set out on my porch. I figured if no kitties showed up I'd only waste one can and could eat the rest myself. Well 3 kitties showed up. A calico, a white one with really bad eyes and a gray one. Long story short, over the course of several months I managed to trap the calico. I named her Sally, sort of, it was just for photos and to be able to identify her. Though pretty she was feral-feral. Hissed and spat the entire time. I had my grandparents take her to the local shelter or humane society. I had to go to work,so I couldn't. I figured they'd at least spay her, give her a rabies shot and let us release her. They wouldn't take her. They told my grandparents to take her to the HS or local shelter (I forget which order they went in). They ended up just releasing her at a place with barn between the two places. Not sure that was the best option, but I wasn't there and had no say. The gray and white cats showed up sporadically and both would bolt if my creaky screen door budged at all. The white one had really bad eyes (herpes maybe) and how he saw, if at all was beyond me. I couldn't get anywhere near him. He was dubbed Mr. Garumpus. The gray one was simply called "The Gray Cat" and there was a brief period (all of this name usage was in Tumblr posts and texts to a friend), where he was referred to as Gandalf and the white one, Saruman.
Anyhow after months of putting food on the porch and trying to be able to open the door without him bolting. I think it was uh... May before I could just be out on the porch with him and July-August before I could pet him. Lately he's been allowed to sleep inside, due to the cold. He has a self-heated bed that comes in with him and goes back out with him. He's only allowed when I'm in too as I didn't have a litter box. It was never a problem as I let him back out before I went to sleep. Granted a few times I konked out before I could. Still no problem. He's only (as far as the smell would tell me and actually seeing him) peed in my house twice. Once on a pile of plastic shopping bags and once on an old phone book.
Right now he's in the bathroom of my grandparents house (I'm house sitting). I let him out for an hour. An hour! And he came back with wounds on his ear, face, leg and head. I have no idea what he did. It was like 2:00 in the morning so I couldn't take him anywhere. I was half-asleep too. Half-asleep me put styptic powder on all the wounds. His face wound looked kind of deep (on his nose-bridge, sort of between his eyes). The powder worked mostly. The ear abscess drained for a while. Both his eyelids (inner eyelids I think) got all puffy and swollen. That was earlier this week. I finally got him in a pet taxi and brought him over here to stay in the bathroom. (He's mostly an outdoor kitty but there's a neighborhood cat that won't eave him alone and he's in no condition to defend himself). He hit his nose in the pet taxi reopening the nose wound after about 2 days. It RAN pink fluid. I lightly pressed on it and it gushed out. Poor thing. It's still draining after a few hours. It'll stop for a while, but then he'll headbutt something or paw at it and it starts again. He isn't cleaning himself right now, but I've been grooming him and I have kitty wipes. I've given him 3 l-lysine chews (125). I also got him a litter box with World's Best Cat litter in it. -It HAS to be septic safe, we don't have trash pick up here. He hasn't used it yet. Might try putting some dead leaves before I had off to work. I don't know that to do.
I'm going to swing by the emergency vet near my office after work (I work part time) and get the necessary new patient papers. I haven't been able to go to a vet as I had like $7 in my bank account and $30 in cash. I plan to pay for the vet visit out of my tax refund. The irs website says it's due today but I checked it and it hasn't gone through. Then I have to wait for my tax service to take their part. They need to hurry it up. The emergency vet is open 24/7/365. Dustbunny seems to act least act fine. He hasn't had any of his shots yet so that worries me. Plus he just looks bad. How do you get abscess pus out of fur?
He was named Dustbunny due to his earlier habit of hiding under my porch and well, being gray. Like a big Dustbunny.
Wow that was long.
Anyhow after months of putting food on the porch and trying to be able to open the door without him bolting. I think it was uh... May before I could just be out on the porch with him and July-August before I could pet him. Lately he's been allowed to sleep inside, due to the cold. He has a self-heated bed that comes in with him and goes back out with him. He's only allowed when I'm in too as I didn't have a litter box. It was never a problem as I let him back out before I went to sleep. Granted a few times I konked out before I could. Still no problem. He's only (as far as the smell would tell me and actually seeing him) peed in my house twice. Once on a pile of plastic shopping bags and once on an old phone book.
Right now he's in the bathroom of my grandparents house (I'm house sitting). I let him out for an hour. An hour! And he came back with wounds on his ear, face, leg and head. I have no idea what he did. It was like 2:00 in the morning so I couldn't take him anywhere. I was half-asleep too. Half-asleep me put styptic powder on all the wounds. His face wound looked kind of deep (on his nose-bridge, sort of between his eyes). The powder worked mostly. The ear abscess drained for a while. Both his eyelids (inner eyelids I think) got all puffy and swollen. That was earlier this week. I finally got him in a pet taxi and brought him over here to stay in the bathroom. (He's mostly an outdoor kitty but there's a neighborhood cat that won't eave him alone and he's in no condition to defend himself). He hit his nose in the pet taxi reopening the nose wound after about 2 days. It RAN pink fluid. I lightly pressed on it and it gushed out. Poor thing. It's still draining after a few hours. It'll stop for a while, but then he'll headbutt something or paw at it and it starts again. He isn't cleaning himself right now, but I've been grooming him and I have kitty wipes. I've given him 3 l-lysine chews (125). I also got him a litter box with World's Best Cat litter in it. -It HAS to be septic safe, we don't have trash pick up here. He hasn't used it yet. Might try putting some dead leaves before I had off to work. I don't know that to do.
I'm going to swing by the emergency vet near my office after work (I work part time) and get the necessary new patient papers. I haven't been able to go to a vet as I had like $7 in my bank account and $30 in cash. I plan to pay for the vet visit out of my tax refund. The irs website says it's due today but I checked it and it hasn't gone through. Then I have to wait for my tax service to take their part. They need to hurry it up. The emergency vet is open 24/7/365. Dustbunny seems to act least act fine. He hasn't had any of his shots yet so that worries me. Plus he just looks bad. How do you get abscess pus out of fur?
He was named Dustbunny due to his earlier habit of hiding under my porch and well, being gray. Like a big Dustbunny.
Wow that was long.
